PARIS: French actress Emmanuelle Riva, star of 1959 classic "Hiroshima Mon Amour" and more recently the oldest best actress Oscar nominee in a late-career revival, died Friday from cancer. Riva died in Paris "after a long illness," her agent, Anne Alvares Correa, told AFP. Riva, whose 60-year acting career spanned film, TV, and theatre, was nominated at 86 for a best leading actress Academy Award for "Amour", which won the best foreign film Oscar in 2013. "Emmanuelle Riva had a deep impact on French cinema, whether it be with 'Hiroshima mon Amour' ... to invoke a wounded memory or, with 'Amour' ... to invoke the end of life," said French President Francois Hollande. The film is the story of a brief affair between a French actor and a Japanese architect in post-war Hiroshima.

Source: New Strait Times January 29, 2017 03:22 UTC